Comment Re:I keep trying (Score 1) 483
doesn't matter at all. Linux is the kernel ONLY. GNU is the actual OS. It's not like were talking about BSD where it IS the entire OS.
Comment Re:This is Ghost in the Shell (Score 1) 249
I think you are really refering to the book "Neuromancer" as that is the book that started that entire genre.
if you like GitS, I highly recommend reading it as you will see direct influence in GitS and Cowboy Bebop.
Also another book to read along side "Neuromancer" is "Snow Crash".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowcrash
Comment Re:I keep trying (Score 1) 483
You do realize that everything in a Linux-based OS is 3rd party except the kernel, right? the OS itself is GNU, the X server is xorg or Xfree86, even the guis are 3rd party.
Comment Ink packs (Score 1) 970
the one thing i have found interesting are the ink packs. I personally have an HP printer that uses 02 ink packs. the funny thing about these is the price disparity on the inks. single colors are 11 bucks with black being 20 bucks. or i can get the 5 cartridge (cyan, light cyan, magenta, light magenta, and yellow) for close to $50, but what i usually get is the 6 cartridge pack (same as 5 cartridge, but it adds a black and 150-sheets of 4x6 photo paper) for 35 bucks.
I have asked several stores why the 5 cartridge costs more than the 6 cartridge and I have yet to get an answer other than "yeah, that doesnt make sense either"
Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203
Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes."
Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.
Microsoft Applies For Patent On Tufte's Sparklines 175
jenkin sear writes "Data visualization guru Edward Tufte developed Sparklines, a great way to display condensed data as an inline graphic. Excel's new version has incorporated the design element — and Microsoft has applied for a patent on them — without so much as a by-your-leave from Tufte."
Comment i hate country music (Score 1) 320
-n rainbow ::ducks the chair thrown at me::
Submission + - Stand-alone virus scanner system
AkumaKuruma writes: "I am currently looking into upgrading a stand-alone anti-virus quarantine computer we use at work. Currently it can run definitions up to a couple months old before updates come down and Only has one AV engine on it. I am wondering if there are any good prebuilt setups for multi-engine scanning or would it just be worth it to throw every anti-virus program I can on it and get a better update schedule going for it.
If anyone has set up one of these types of systems in the past, I would be interrested to hear what you went thru."
If anyone has set up one of these types of systems in the past, I would be interrested to hear what you went thru."
Comment Re:Erm.....What the hell? (Score 1) 429
The other nasty one I've seen U3 thumb drives do is have a really weird formatting to them so that it makes the computer think it has a CD-ROM also on it for all the autorun stuff, "safetly" in a read-only partition, with the rest of the media being for storage, and the only way to fix it is to use said software in the read-only part to format the whole drive as storage media. cant even use any OS utilities to do it.
so theres a loophole to get around the autorun already
Comment Re:OMG, try look at Slashdot in Lynx!! (Score 1) 220
I actually do look at slashdot with lynx sometimes. especially when im bogging my computer down with needless compiling.
Comment Re:Faggots (Score 1) 120
look up the Moonlight project. its a Silverlight implementation for *nix that is being partially supported by MS.
Comment why not use windows encryption (Score 1) 121
If you use NTFS, it already supports encryption all the way down to the file level.
Comment UFS (Score 1) 225
I find it odd that they used the linux implementation to mount UFS instead of the FreeBSD version which OSX(Darwin) is based upon already
